A bad week and month for LNP

Dec 3, 2012

ABC Insiders 2-Dec-2012 dedicate the last segment of the last show in 2012 to LNP Queensland woes. It seems ethics and accountability are key issues - who would have thought!

Barry Cassidy

Queensland the Labor party was wiped out and reduced to a netball team and at that point there was a lot of flow back to federal Labor.Ever since then incrementally it seems to be turning around, have a look at this headline from this week [Courier Mail] "LNP War Gets Nasty"and that's not an unusual perspective over recent weeks.

DennisNo No the LNP has suffered, well they have had one of the worst weeks I've seen from a government in a very long time and that comes on the back of a bad few months.The Labor party vote in Queensland according to our regular poll with Galaxy in Queensland has increased by more than a third since the election and the LNP's vote has collapsed by about 12%.So they are pretty big moves in both directions and Campbell Newman's personal numbers have collapsed like I've never seen any new elected leader suffer such a decline.

Barry CassidyFrom a very high base though.

DennisFrom a very high base but still its a rapid one way street downward for them, but most worrying is we did a poll where one of the questions we asked this week was about ethics and accountability.Two thirds of voters in Queensland think that the Newman Government is no better of worse than Labor was and they just booted them out by a massive majority just 8 month ago and of those one third 35% think that this government is worse than Labor - that's a terrible result.They lost 3 members this week, they've got internal battles - they don't seem to have a political strategy - they really need to have a good think about themselves over summer.